How-to: Integrate Community QA Processes and Tools into the Development Process

Owned by Christine Gichuki
Sep 21, 2020
1 min read
Purpose

The purpose of this protocol is to guide teams and squads on successfully integrating OpenMRS community QA processes and tools into a development cycle. This includes:

  • Reviewing and assessing available community QA processes and tools

  • Prioritizing test cases for automation

  • Creating a QA plan that includes selected QA processes and tools

  • Building your team’s QA awareness, skills, and knowledge

  • Reviewing QA results 

Review and assess available community QA processes and tools

Step 1: Conduct an initial meeting with the QA Support Team to discuss your project’s QA needs, current practices, and timelines

Step 2: Review available community QA process and tools (demos)

Step 3: Select an automated test framework (if applicable). The Reference Application uses Selenium.

Prioritize test cases for automation

Step 1: Review the QA Test Case Roadmap 

Step 2: Make a copy of the QA Prioritization spreadsheet to use for prioritizing test cases for automation

Create a QA plan

Step 1: Create a Test plan.

Step 2: Review the test plan with your team and the QA team.

Step 3: Use the test plan to guide the testing process.

Build your team’s QA capacity

Step 1: Schedule a working session with the QA Support Team.

Step 2: Review of QA Framework Technical Documentation and a quick guide on how to use CucumberStudio.

Step 3: Set up your QA environment

Step 4: Develop prioritized test cases using your automated framework and CucumberStudio

Trial a sub-set of test cases  

Step 1: Run 2-3 test cases using CucumberStudio

Step 2: Identify improvements to make to test cases based on results.

Step 3: Share results with the development team. 

Step 4: Decide to proceed with automated testing for the release.